Annika Kosolov

Annika Kosolov
Real Name	Annika Kosolov
Aliases	Anni Russian Girl
Nationality	Estonian American
Affiliation	Iceberg Lounge
Biographical information
Status	Deceased
Date of birth	January 20, 1998
Place of birth	Estonia
Date of death	November 1, 2022
Place of death	Shoreline Lofts, Gotham City, New Jersey
Physical description
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Hair	Blonde
Eye color	Blue
Appearances
Film(s)	The Batman
Comic(s)	Riddler: Year One *Chapter One: A New Beginning
Actor(s)
Portrayed by	Hana Hrzic

"All I want to do is get out of here, okay? You'll never hear from me again, nobody will. Please, please..."

―Annika Kosolov to Carmine Falcone^[src]

Annika Kosolov was a waitress working at the Iceberg Lounge and the former roommate of Selina Kyle.

Biography

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Early Life

Moving to Gotham City

Annika Kosolov was born in Estonia but then emigrated to the United States of America for a fresh start. She worked as a waitress at the Iceberg Lounge, a club in Gotham City that is frequently exclusive to members of the Falcone Crime Family and their associates, where she met and befriended Selina Kyle, who she became close friends and roommates with.

Life in Gotham

Meeting Mayor Mitchell, Jr.

Annika also frequently met with Mayor Don Mitchell, Jr. and thus sparked the hidden romance between them. Through this relationship, Annika learned about a secret conspiracy between Carmine Falcone and corrupt Gotham offiicals who arrested drug lord Salvatore Maroni and ended his Drops operation to cement Falcone's rise to power in Gotham's criminal underworld. However, photos taken by the Riddler indicated that Mitchell was abusive towards Annika, as she had bruises on her face.

Disappearance and Murder

After Mitchell was murdered by Riddler, photos of Mitchell and Annika became public after they were sent to various media outlets. Annika called Selena crying while she was on her way home from work. Selena told her they could leave Gotham now, but Annika revealed that Mitchell stole her passport sometime prior to his death. Selena then put her burglary uniform on and left to go get it back.

However, while Selena was gone, William Kenzie broke into their apartment and abducted Annika, bringing her to the Iceberg Lounge. She was taken to Carmine Falcone, who asked her what Mitchell said before his death. She told him how he told her about his role as the informant in the Maroni drug bust. After taking in the information, Maroni then proceeded to strangle Annika to death.

Legacy

Apart from her mother's murder by Falcone, Annika's murder prompted Selina to go after Falcone and kill him. Before this, she captured Kenzie and beat him after retrieving his phone, which showed an audio recording of his murder of Annika. Selena then attempted to kill Kenzie, but failed due to the intervention of Batman and Jim Gordon, although Kenzie would be incarcerated at Blackgate. Afterwards, Selina went to the Iceberg Lounge and confronted Falcone, although she was overwhelmed until Batman arrived and saved her. After Falcone was subdued and arrested by clean officers of the Gotham City Police Department, he was shot dead by Riddler, inadvertently avenging Annika.

Relationships

Allies Oz Cobb/Penguin - Employer Selina Kyle - Co-Worker, Ex-Girlfriend, Friend, and Roommate

Enemies Don Mitchell, Jr. † - Former Lover and Abuser Falcone Crime Syndicate Carmine Falcone † - Killer William Kenzie - Abductor

Appearances

Appearances for Annika Kosolov
In chronological order: The Riddler: Year One The Batman

Trivia

• Annika lived at 13 Queen Street, Apartment 1A.
• According to The Batman: The Official Script Book, Annika was 22 years old before she was killed.
• Annika is possibly a stand-in for Holly Robinson, who, in the comics, was also a young woman who Selina Kyle had a close relationship within her early days as Catwoman.
• Annika's murder committed personally by Falcone was likely inspired by the murder of Deborah Hussey who was strangled personally by Whitey Bulger at the Winter Hill Gang's hideout in South Boston on the 14th January 1985.
  • Like in the film, Deborah Hussey was a 26-year-old prostitute who was the daughter of Bulger's associate and hitman, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi's girlfriend, Marion Hussey. According to Flemmi, the circumstances surrounding Deborah Hussey's murder was that Bulger had become aware of that Hussey was going to tell her mother about the sexual abuse that her and her sister, Stephanie Hussey had suffered at the hands of Flemmi. In his testimony, Flemmi stated that Bulger had lured Deborah Hussey to the Winter Hill Gang's hideout, known in the media as the "Killing House" in South Boston where Bulger and Flemmi took turns strangling Hussey until she had succumbed. After killing Hussey, Bulger and Flemmi took her body from the house to Dorchester and buried her in a shallow grave.
• The motive for Falcone killing Annika to keep his status as an informer a secret was also inspired by the early murder of Debra Davis who was also strangled by Bulger at the house on the night of the 16th September 1981. Like the later murder of Hussey, Davis worked as a jewellery store clerk who was a previous girlfriend of Flemmi. According to Flemmi, Bulger had found out that Davis had become aware of Bulger and Flemmi's statuses as FBI informants. According to Flemmi, after killing Davis, both he and Bulger took Davis' body from the house to the bank of the Neponsit River where they buried her in a grave.

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